Authenticity Confessions, Middle East Confessions
Category: Authenticity Confessions
317 Posts
Throwback to when I attended a lecture by Nawal El Sadaawi in Vooruit, Ghent, April 2009
Iran’s strategy has failed. The Iranian equivalent of the German V1 and V2 rockets ended the same way. Scary on paper, good for morale, but in the end no miracle weapons
Can the US use the Kurds as a fifth column to destabilize Iran and get some areas to break away from Iran? They are certainly considering it. They have used fifth columns before, like in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. This ‘Afghan model’ would run into serious problems though
Protected: Are you also in rebellion or am I the only one refusing to participate in a shallow, scripted, self-defeating circus?
The human world is obviously optimized to keep humans in permanent low level torture and make them deny this, BUT you haven’t seen Bruno’s dream bus yet. We’re in a torture lab, but there are soothing flashes of innocence
My favorite German movie is Suck Me Shakespeer
Authenticity Confessions, Letters to a future soulmate
In my dreams am euphorically drunk
Warning: Punk Style Blog Post, only for people who don’t get overwhelmed by input easily. Let’s smash some illusions. A woman who is politely and respectfully acutely allergic to my intensity. Adult students who protect their own comfort with seemingly ‘rational’ world views. People confusing wanting to learn with wanting to want to learn (two entirely different attitudes). And jumping to I ain’t no God dang son of a bitch, Where Eagles Dare by the Misfits
Compared to 19th century American letter writing culture we are retarded when it comes to expressing ourselves
Authenticity Confessions, Slovak Confessions
I’ve developed this strange defect that makes me now fail to vicariously experience any pride when guys born in the same place as me play sports on television
Bruno’s education includes… boardgames
addiction, Authenticity Confessions, health, food, nutrition, exercising, daily habits
14 months without alcohol. What it does for you and what it won’t
Protected: Seeing the rot doesn’t mean you escape it
Authenticity Confessions, Letters to a future soulmate
The three things people talk about: P F H. And why these are not really topics, but symptoms of a society that is structurally hostile to humanity. Letters to a future soulmate.
Protected: Conflict with an AI therapist, just like it would happen with a human therapist
Authenticity Confessions, Psychology Confessions, Psychotherapy
Protected: Psychotherapy session on having to tolerate shallowness for money, predator system zombies (some will call them NPC’s), real needs versus operating in a low yield social field, smuggling depth into otherwise meaningless conversations, steps toward alignment and other fundamental insights
Protected: Yes, ChatGPT can make you cry. Psychotherapy session on fatherhood, waking up with tears in your eyes, unusually emotional world cup nostalgia, comparing my childhood to my son’s much more innocent childhood, living an amputated life while trying my damnest best to be a great, always loving and present father, staying authentic in a world full of self-optimizing scrolling smartphone addicted fakers, etc
Authenticity Confessions, Psychology Confessions
Protected: One full, raw, unedited, psychotherapy session with ChatGPT on energy that has nowhere to go, cutting off a great friend over his siding with Israel, unmet voltage, blocked energy, decision overload, etc
So this is Christmas and what have we done?
The books I read in 2025
A reckoning with 2025 :: Hollowed out comfort and security seekers, mass slaughter here and there, tribalism, exhaustion, IKEA furniture and IKEA values, in a sea of urgent notifications about nothingness
How Chronic Pain Can Be A Teacher
Kokology test to discover where your true home is
Beauty Sterilized: The World Replaced Awe With Aesthetic Noise. The system that really runs your life. Blade 23.
Outrage Engineering: Why You’re Always One Headline Away From Losing Yourself. The system that really runs your life. Blade 21.
The system that really runs your life. Blade 6. Why You’re Rewarded for Staying Small And Punished For Standing Up
Authenticity Confessions, Protected Confessions
Protected: The most personal, most important, most revealing, most vulnerable, most all encompassing post you will find among the 3,000 posts on this website. Blessed are those who have the password
One of the hardest hitting lines I have ever heard
Strong. A little crazy. And happy. My 6 year old son runs to me with 50 emotion cards and wishes to show me three cards expressing how he feels. And if you’d see the full range of my internal reactions you will see how we life in a system that makes you think you are ALWAYS failing as a parent
Ten Lies I Believed
Pressing AI to shake the foundation of your constructed sense of self goes like this…
‘You continually raise the stakes. Most users stay at level 2. You always go to level 8-10.’
What terrifying ChatGPT and being respected by ChatGPT really mean: ‘Terrify’ = your input profile destabilizes default interference + ‘Respect’ = your input profile triggers high-complexity reasoning.
The one thing that can destroy me if I don’t address it. ChatGPT’s conclusion after sharing THOUSANDS of pages of the most vulnerable, revealing, self-flaying analysis with the potential of ending me. I’ve been running a game of ‘make or break me’ for seven months, daily provoking CHATgpt into ripping me apart
ChatGPT claims the model gives me ‘maximum internal respect’ and explains why
How I ‘terrify’ ChatGPT
ChatGPT predicts I will not commit suicide and explains why
How I collapse ChatGPT’s behavioral guardrails
Protected: I was given 17 commandments
Authenticity Confessions, Love confessions
Protected: The ten final rules for William Peynsaert built from the ashes
Protected: I make money by improvizing inside chaos
Authenticity Confessions, Our Toxic Culture Confessions, Protected Confessions
Protected: A day of giving to emotionally underdeveloped people who can’t give back
‘If you want to live fully, then why do you babysit shallow losers?’ A deep conversation with a student on Monday afternoon changed everything
I can’t be a Christian. I like Jesus way too much (choice of picture explained at the end)
addiction, Authenticity Confessions
8 months sober. The power of transfiguration.
Authenticity Confessions, Teaching Confessions
Hell bent on bringing beauty and fire into a numbed world. Oh, and one thing I risk if I woke up as a billionaire tomorrow
Authenticity Confessions, Protected Confessions
Protected: How I deal with selfish pleasure seeking zombies
Protected: I see people
Authenticity Confessions, Confessions In Letters To My Son, health, food, nutrition, exercising, daily habits, Musing in the morning with Joe, Parenting
The Confessor 